Here lies the oliphant, Abul-Abbuz, in the garden of Lemnbiscati Rome. He is n the midst of his second season of enchanted sleep, of 605 years. For Abul-Abbuz is no ordinary oliphant, having been conjured into existence by princess Sheherazade in one of her 1001 Nights. That’s the difference between Abul-Abbuz and all her other characters, Aladdin, Simdbad the sailor etc...

The hill of Montesiepi is where ended the parabola of King Arthur’s sword, once Excalibur (out of the stone), now Incalibur (into the stone). But it took all of the might of Michael the Archangel to put it back there and overcome Arthur’s sword carrier Galgano (Gawain). Hehad been poisoned by such a high duty; like all, high things the sword possessed a dark side, which made it hard to relinquish or be relinquished.

Background: After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Lango Bards (long beards), a fierce tribe from North Germany, invade Italy and establish a mosaic of trucculent dukedoms, one of which, Spoleto, is eventually ruled by the barbarian duke Faroaldo, who has recurrent dreams sent from Lazarus, the last surviving "pillar saint" from Syria, who lives in the hills above Spoleto.

Like Saint Phalle in 1978, we found fulgurites and fossilized bird footprints in the sand and we also saw replicants of Ibis and Hawk bird gods, feeding along the canals and roosting all the way to the Burano nature reserve.

On the 27th November 2015 Storygardenz and Tuscia University inaugurated a new academic benchmark: “The Birthright to Confusion”

Without prior notification, and for the first time ever, 50 young students preparing to enter university were confronted with a test in which they were required to demonstrate their incapacity to understand, or, their capacity not to understand.

We have just made our visit to the Val D’Orcia, in south Tuscany, not far from Siena. I consider this to be one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. Castelvecchio is a great 800 hectare estate - a wildlife reserve - right in the middle, with great sweeping vistas across the clay glulches towards Montepulciano to the east, the “ideal city” of Pienza to the north and Radicofani and Monte Amiata to the west.

If one were to imagine a world temple of culinary arts, it would be easy to see that it was supported by four pillars – the four principal culinary schools of the world: Italian, Chinese, French, Indian. Each tradition, quite distinct from the others, can be associated with essential notions and archetypes.